Oklahoma at Arkansas

• 

  The Sentinel=record, November 26, 1916, page 4

  Read the text

  OKLAHOMA DEFEATS ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY DUMB PLAYING ON PART OF THE RAzoR8AcKS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DEFEAT. Fort Smith, Ark, Nov 25.-.By a narrow margin of a single point, the Oklahoma University Sooners nosed out the Arkansas Razorbacks this afternoon. Because Hardin and Shack. eltord each thoght the other was to catch Hale’s punt out for position after his touchdown in the second quarter. Neither caught the ball and the Razorbacks lost their opportunity to kick the goal and the game. While Davidson had kicked goal on the first touchdown and goal and in the final period when Graham car cied the ball over after a sensational drive down the field, Tolbert kicked the goal. The final score was Okla. homa l4, Arkansas F. While both drives that netted touch downs for the victorious Sooners were made with straight football pr.n cipal- ly line drives, the game was in the main an aerial duel Davidson for the Razorbacks. forward passed and punt ed for a total of AT yards, while passes and punts for the Sooners gain ed a total of 270 yards. Arkansas gained total of 56 yards on intercep ed passes, whle Oklahoma gained only IT on three of these plays, but heavy penalties cost the Arkansas men 57 yards and the line plunging O. the SOoners was more effective. Ar kansas tried in all 24 passes, the ma iority of which were thrown by David son Nine of them were complete. two gong for touchdowns and the nine gaining a total of 202 yards Twelve were unsuccessful and three were in. tercepted by the Sooners Oklahoma launched the areial at tack II times. completing three for a total of fl yards, failing to complete eight, and Arkansas intercepting three of them The bunting combat between David son for the RaZorbacks and Briscoe for the Sooners was the most spacIa- cular feature of the game. Davidson kicked 10 times for a total of 2i9 yards while Briscoe puntee nine times for 2l9 yards and McDermot, who replac- ed him in the last half, made 8 yards on a single kick.

• 

  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 27, 1916, page 1

  Read the text

  Oklahoma Wins From Arkansas University Fort Smith, Ark, Nov. 26.-The University of Oklahoma foot ball team launched series of line drives in the last half Of the game here yes terday with the University of Arkansas, which produced touchdown that overcame Arkansas lead and gave the Sooners victory, ID to IS. Misunderstanding between Hardin and Shackelford of Arkansas as to which should catch Hale’s punt out for position aft er his touchdown eventually led to the Arkansas defeat Neither player caught the ball and a chance for goal from touchdown, which would have tied the game, was lost

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Oklahoma leads 8–⁠4–⁠1 in 13 meetings, counting the seven since this game.